Dental Woes

I've been going to the dentist faithfully every six months for the previous several years now.  It's been a very good thing.  I can tell that my teeth are in better shape than they've been in my life.

However...

It's the old dental work that is causing problems.  The root canal earlier this year?  It was previous dental work that ended up "causing" it.  And now I get to go back to the dentist and have my last amalgam filling replaced.  It was put in well over 20 years ago, so it's done well.  But I still HATE to have novocaine and the associated ache and headache for the rest of the day.  Ugh.

I don't like dentists.  Nobody does.  But everyone goes to them.  So I guess we SAY that we don't like dentists, but life would suck without them, especially when things started hurting.